Pipal

This bhendi leaf is a glossy one resembling pipal leaf. ❋ Anjali (2007)

Your "inosent pipal '" have been preparing missile production lines, fighters, bunkers, tunnels, command centers, mortar and machine gun positions, ammo stores, booby traps and so on, spent hundreds of millions of Iranian and EU money and years of workforce. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ever since, millions of his followers have considered the tree (actually a pipal, though known as a banyan) and an adjoining temple the holiest of sites, which they try to visit at least once in their lives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Somehow, through it all, Buddhists believe that the pipal tree that once shaded Siddhartha has managed to survive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is said to have attained Enlightenment, or to have become a Buddha, which means "Awakened One", at the age of 35, after 49 days meditating underneath a pipal tree. ❋ Jan (2008)

~ Sitting as surrender -- Just because the story of Siddhartha Guatama says he realized enlightenment while sitting under a pipal tree, does that mean that we must also literally sit if we want to do the same? ❋ William Harryman (2007)

A time when the sun hangs low on the horizon, half hidden by the pipal trees which line our compound walls all the way down the long driveway to the bolted wrought-iron gates. ❋ Unknown (1999)

His eyes kept searching out the transformed figure of Ayesha the seer, who was resting in the shade of a pipal-tree in the company of Mishal Akhtar, her mother Mrs. Qureishi, and the lovesick Osman with his bullock. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)

Some pipal-trees looked over the walls, and a couple of very antiquated cannon looked through them, but nothing stirred. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Sunni stood absolutely still, gradually letting go his hold upon the pipal twigs. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

All day long the green parrakeets flashed in and out of the pipal-trees, screaming and chattering, while the river wound blue among the yellow sands outside the wall; but to-night the only sound in them was the whispering of the leaves as the south wind passed, and both the river and the sands lay silver gray in the starlight. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Some fine pipal-trees grew in it though, one of them towered within three feet of the balcony, while the lower branches overspread the city wall. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Ten years will make a banyan sapling, or a pipal, into a sturdy trunk, and lo, by that time, in some visitation of drought or cholera or smallpox, or because some housewife was childless, coloured threads are being tied upon the tree or some rude symbolic painting put upon it. ❋ John Morrison (N/A)

It hung straight and black down into the shadows of the pipal-tree. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

As a whole, the arable tract is a treeless region, except around the villages, which are encircled by fine mango, _pipal_, banyan and tamarind trees, and intersected with green shady lanes of bamboo. ❋ Various (N/A)

Sumatran language shows traces of Indian and Arabic influence, and that the early civilisation of the huge island was of Hindu origin is evidenced by innumerable Sanskrit words, and by the fact that the consecrated pipal tree, the "Ficus Religiosa" of India, remains to this day the sacred tree of the Batteks. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

The staircase took a lazy curve and went up: under it, through an open window, the sun glistened upon the shifting white and green leaves of a pipal tree and a crow sat on the sill and thrust his grey head in with caws of indignant expostulation. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

'I came by a rope from the palace to the pipal-tree, and thence to the south wall, and thence to the river bed. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

And still the gates were shut, and still only the pipal-trees looked over the wall, and only the cannon looked through. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Hey Joe, that was so funny! #PIPAL That [roller coaster] ride was so scary I PIPAL. Sam: If you want to catch [a squirrel] just climb a tree and act like [a nut]. Steve: LOL PIPAL ❋ Acrave (2015)